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We expect inspiration in sunsets, blooming flowers, and mountain-top views. And in turn we've come to not expect it elsewhere: in the tragic or mundane. This essay collection challenges this categorization of wonder, light, and beauty. Fourteen authors share their experiences of finding light in unexpected places. In a disaster, on a dreary morning commute. In squawking gulls, aging bodies, and seeing the way a friend signs his name. Wherever ...

Mia reads fairy tales of stepmothers holding back heroes and heroines. but Mia's own stepmom isn't like the ones in fairy tales: she's kind and generous. With Mommy's help, Mia rewrites her own story to match the love she sees all around her. With a child's wonder, Mia steps past the barriers set up by the adults in her life and begins to help Mommy make the challenging transition to a new life of limitless possibilities.StepMOMs' Infinite Lov...

Gill Puckridge explores turning sixty, uprooting her life, and traveling to China. Deep fried cockroaches, dancing the cha-cha under the stars, and backpacking up the Li River were the mildest of her experiences. Throw in some miscommunication over cultural customs and you have the recipe for an exciting, and often hilarious, journey to China. An inspiration for anyone looking for youthful wonder in their golden years.Gillybean in China is the...

Tavius Dyer looks at the parts of himself he hasn't wanted to look at--those hiding in the shadows--and brings them into the open for re-integration. The poems move from darkness to recovery by creatively exploring a self sometimes reluctant to step into the light. Near-death experiences, incarceration, divorce, and the loss of an only child are motivations to finding the other side.Shadow Work brings a message of hope and strength to anyone w...

Manhattan is epic. And here's the poem to prove it. Erik Pihel delivers a short epic in traditional forms that tells the archetypal New York story of a stranger arriving on shores of a new world. A book twenty-one years in the making, this tale of loss and wonder takes place over four days in 1995/96 and ends in free verse on the sidewalks of the East Village.Saturday, 9 December 1995 The World Below The Passion of the Queen A Bridge to the Fa...

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